Odin were a band with an interesting background, possibly more interesting than their music which was rather run-of-the-mill psych and blues rock sprinkled with a bit of funky jazz. The lineup consisted of a German, Dutchman and a couple of Englishmen transplanted to Germany in the late sixties. An early formation was known Honest Truth and made their modest reputation through live shows for the most part. Odin came to be after a breakup of Honest Truth in the wake of the death of their keyboardist and the theft of their equipment.
The Odin lineup included a new keyboardist (you know, because the old one was dead) named Jeff Beer, the only German and a converted guitarist. This band also concentrated on live shows, and secured a contract with Vertigo in 1972. Their self-titled and only studio release followed shortly thereafter. While the group had worked on a follow-up and had recorded tracks in a radio studio that would be released a quarter-century later, their fortunes in 1973 were rather bleak and by early 1974 the band had disbanded after less than three years together.
“Life is Only” and “Turnpike Lane” were among the four tracks the band would re-record in their radio studio sessions in 1973 and while those recordings were nearly identical, the production quality of both on this record is quite a bit better. “Life is Only” appears to be the band’s magnum opus, a nearly eleven minute foray into jazz, heavy blues and psychedelic guitar riffs that is a bit undisciplined but pretty ambitious for a fledgling band of young musicians.
“A Tribute to Frank” is just what the title says, but interestingly enough the short track’s keyboard and percussion bear a striking resemblance to a lot of jazzed-up New Age music I heard in the early eighties. This is also the only track of its kind on the album. “Be the Man You Are” is the other oddity, a mellow, folk-like guitar number with Beer providing dime-store philosophy backed by some decent harmony courtesy of guitarist Rob Terstall.
“Gemini” is a very prototypical early seventies Hammond organ-driven heavy rock song with wailing lead guitar and a toe-tapping though not particularly ambitious drumbeat. In all the tune isn’t bad, but sounds just like at least a couple dozen other bands of that era that come to mind but who I won’t bother to list out here.
The only instrumental on the album (“Eucalyptus”) is another slow number with an almost maddeningly plodding guitar and bass line that just doesn’t seem to go anywhere. I’m guessing there are no lyrics because the band couldn’t think of anything to say about the music. Me either.
The band ends the album and their career with “Clown”, another hard-rocker with psych guitar much in the vein of the opening track. Again, not bad but nothing any prog fan hasn’t heard countless times before.
The CD reissue has a bonus track (“Oh No”) which was also featured on the 1973 SWF session tapes released on the Long Hair label in 2007. This is another organ orgy (that sounds weird when I read those words back out loud), although I’ll admit the tune is representative of the rest of the band’s work so I suppose it fits here.
I’ll say the same of this album that I did about their SWF Sessions CD – not essential by any means, but a record that will likely have some appeal to fans of heavy prog. Three stars just because I think the music is a little better than just for collectors and fans of the band.
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Studio Album, released in 1970
Track Listings:
1. Intruitus (8:55) 2. Silence (8:53) 3. Edge Of Time (9:05) 4. Dream (9:37) Total Time: 36:30Bonus Tracks - CD Reissue: Flotenmenschen 1 (6:31) Flotenmenschen 2 (1:15) Flotenmenschen 3 (1:17) Flotenmenschen 4 (1:11) Let Me Explain (6:37)
Line-up/Musicians:
- Laszlo Baksay / bass, lyrics, vocals- Gabor Baksay / percussion, flute, vocals- Reiner Puzalowski / guitar, flute, vocals- Hans Georg Stopka / organ, guitar, vocals
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This is one of the heaviest psyche albums ive heard!!! The band is a trio, bass, guitar and drums...it lacks any type of influence: electronic, jazz or eastern that could define a lot of the bands in the Kraut! genre. This is straight out heavy psyche-freak out. The albums starts off with Chub-Chub-Cherry, wich at the very beggining you know its going to blast off, the song goes on pretty typical, verse-chorus-verse.. The guitar jumping around, very foust and loud, while on the back you hear a loud and very solid bass and drum line. Brain Brain gets you going with some crazyness, its a pretty long track, for the first 3 mins you hear Hajo singing while the bass and drums go along with him very slow and soft...and then everything justs burst out! right before they start building it up again. and they go off into the heavy stuff. The next two songs: God and head tear of a drunken song kind of follow the same structure, they start like a "normal" rock song and saving all the really heavy and wild stuff for the end, same type of motion as in the first song: guitar over bass and drums, but they never get down, they always keep it interesting. They heavily maintain the rock portion of the music
, all the lyrics are in english, the voice is highpitch and it gets along pretty well with the music. all the instruments are finelly equilibrated, not one covers the sound of another at any time. good sound quality also... (Progarchives Review)
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Studio Album, released in 1973
Track Listings:
1. Sword in the Sky (4:50) 2. Lory (5:31) 3. Nightmare (10:33) 4. King and Queen (13:44) 5. Feeling (7:37)
Total Time: 42:15
Line-up/Musicians :
- Joe / guitar, vocals - Ulli / guitar, flute, vocals - Olli / synthesizer - Wolfgang / bass - Egon / drums
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Sunlight grids quiver in the system. Read on! It's monk time - it's hop time. Don't read this. We said: don't read this. Let sapphires glide into the grooves. What is beat? What is beat today? And what is over-beat? And who the hell is going to melt the hot and cold world of tomorrow?
Listen, as Roger beats, Gary plucks, Dave pummels. And Eddie dreams hell's bass part. And Larry fingers the keys of the day after tomorrow. The monks believe in nothing. The monks believe that everything is possible. The monks give everything. Words are the outline of lies. Why do the monks produce their own words - for days on end, as the moon shines - until one word leads to another. Don't listen. Count from nine until blast off, then swim into the city's primeval forest. Black discs mirror colorful, shimmering illusions. This black circle, however, quivers within the system of our dear world - goodness gracious - the experiment, after all, is only beginning. Truth is habit-forming. Lying is the art of pleasing the other. The monks for their part, love . . .
Gary Burger plays guitar and was born in Minnesota. Roger Johnston, a Texan, gives his drums the works. Chicago boy: That is Larry Clark - crazy-fingers at the organ, for his father was no gangster, but a priest. And Dave Day has more than one banjo and more than one microphone built into each of his banjos. He claims that he was born in Washington. And Eddie Shaw, who hails from California, uses his bass guitar as he sees fit!
(From original liner notes of BLACK MONK TIME, 1965)
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Ken Caillat; Patrick Kelly; Tom Lipsky; Rick Medlocke; Gary Rossington;.38 Special; Hughie Thomasson; John Trickett; Johnny Van Zant;
Track List
1.Santa's Messin' With The Kid
2.Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
3.Christmas Time Again
4.Greensleeves
5.Santa Claus Is Coming To town
6.Run Run Rudolph
7.Mama's Song
8.Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'
9.Classical Christmas
10.Hallelujah, It's Christmas
11.Skynyrd Family
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Míseros 30 minutos de uma música grandiosa, Stoned Age Man pode ser considerado um desses clássicos que ficaram absolutamente perdidos no tempo. Capitaneado por Joseph Longeria, responsável pelos fortes vocais e guitarra, Joseph faz um som típico do final dos anos 60, oscilando entre o blues e o psicodélico, o que já se faz notar pela versão de House Of The Rising Sun do Animals e damais faixas. Para os amantes do bom e velho hard rock, Stoned Aged Man é algo memorável e, na primeira audição, impactante. Altamente recomentado.
Grupo da Suiça que desenvolve um som meio jazz, meio psicodélico, meio space rock, tendo duas faixas cujas letras foram escritas por Timothy Leary, o ideólogo da lisergia
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